The Fifa furore shows the game is changing

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This week’s crisis is welcome. The Blatters of this world are under scrutiny and can no longer do as they please

Old Aaron’s First Law, for those few who have forgotten, is always to reverse the headline on a poll result. So if you’re told that a “staggering” 45 per cent of people think X, then before throwing yourself in front of a returning Cheryl Cole, imagine how totally unamazing it might be that 55 per cent don’t.

This is a column outlining Old Aaron’s new Second Law. But rather than say what it is, I’d like to argue you towards it, via Sepp Blatter and what by now I imagine to be the outcry over his unopposed re-election as Fifa